Hat-pin.



D. CUTLER.

HAT PIN.

APPLIOATION FILED 111111.11, 1913.

Patented 001. 21, 1913."

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DAVID CU'TLER, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

HAT-PIN'.

Speccaton of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 21,1913.

Application filed March 8, 1913. Serial No. 752,878.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, DAVID CUTLER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Baltimore, Maryland, have invented certain improvements in Hat-Pins, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements in that class of hat pins in which the points thereof are adapted to be withdrawn within a surrounding tubular sheath and the pin thereby rendered less dangerous than others in which the points are permanently exposed; and it consists in a construction whereby the point of the pin is withdrawn within the tubular sheath in the act of applying the device to a hat, as will hereinafter fully appear.

In the further description of the said invention which follows, reference is made to the accompanying drawing forming a part hereof, and in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved hat pin with the point of the same projecting beyond the sheath. Fig. 2 is a partially sectional viewof the device with the point of the pin withdrawn within the sheath. F ig. 3 is an enlarged sectional View of the head of the pin; and Fig. 4 an underside view of Fig. 3.

Referring now to the drawing, l is the head of the pin, consisting of the outer shell a, and the knobbed inner shell b which is adapted to have a limited movement longitudinally of the shell cz for a purpose hereinafter described.

2 is the pointed pin proper secured t-o the bottom c of the inner shell b; and 3 the tubular sheath which surrounds the pin 2 and is fastened to the lower end of the outer shell a.

4 is a loose collar on the tubular sheath 2, adapted to have a longitudinal movement thereof, and is rigidly connected to the bottom of the inner shell by means of the wires 5 which pass loosely through the bottom of the outer shell.

With the construction described, it will be understood that the collar 4 can be moved toward and from the head l carrying with it the pointed pin 2; and the various parts of the device are so relatively arranged that while the collar is moved away from the head l, the point of the pin will be projected beyond the sheath as indicated in Fig. l; and when it is drawn back and brought into contact with the head l, the point is drawn within the sheath as shown in Fig. 2.

Supposing the device to be in the condition shown in Fig. l, and it is inserted in a hat, pressure for the purpose being applied to the knob on the inner shell Z9, the device operates with respect to the perforation of the material of the hat7 in precisely the same manner as does an ordinary pin or one destitute of a surrounding sheath; but as pressure on the knob is removed, and the forward movement of the device continued, the outer shell alone being gripped, the collar 4 in striking the exterior of the hat, is forced back against the end of the outer shell, and the point of the pin passes to within the sheath, as shown in Fig. 2.

In order to prevent any independent turning of either shell independently of the other, the inner shell is provided with the screw 6 which extends through a slot d in the outer shell, as shown in Fig. 3.

I claim as my invention l. In a hat pin, a pointed pin proper, and a sheath which surrounds the pin proper and is susceptible of a movement longitudinally thereof, combined with a longitudinally eXtensible and contractible head comprising an outer shell secured to the sheath and an inner knobbed shell fastened to the pin proper, a collar which is loose on the sheath, and means to unite the collar with the inner shell, whereby in the extension of the head, the point of the pin proper is drawn into the sheath, and in the contraction of the same, is projected beyond the end of the sheath.

2. 1n a hat pin, a pointed pin proper, and a sheath which surrounds the pin proper and is susceptible of a movement longitudinally thereof, combined with a longitudinally eXtensible and contractible head comprising an outer and an inner shell which vare s eourecl respectively tothe sheath and sheath, and in a reverse direction, is pro the pin proper, a collar which is loose on the jectecl beyond the end of the same. sheath and Wires which unite the said collar to the 7inner shell, whereby in the Inovernenrl DAVID CUTLER of the collar longitudinally of they sheath Witnesses:

and toward the outer shell of the heard, the EDWARD B. SWINMNER,

point of the pin proper is drawn into the WINFIELD S. HODGDON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washingtom. C. 

